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Latest News in Telecommunications

  • May 26, 2026

    Feds, Unified Patents, AT&T Push Back On High Court Bids

    The U.S. Supreme Court received objections to three patent petitions on Tuesday, with Unified Patents fighting Dolby's appeal of its own Patent Trial and Appeal Board win; AT&T and Nokia protesting an attempt to revive a $181 million trial loss; and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office opposing inventor Gilbert Hyatt's challenge to prosecution laches.

  • May 26, 2026

    Microsoft Says Teams Info Not 'Voiceprint' Under BIPA

    Microsoft has urged a Washington federal judge to throw out a proposed class action from Illinois residents who claim the company's Teams software wrongfully creates biometric "voiceprints" of meeting participants, arguing that its "routine transcription functions" don't count as voiceprints because they're not personally identifying.

  • May 26, 2026

    MoneyLion Seeks To Shed Wash. Suit Over Referral Texts

    Fintech platform MoneyLion is looking to escape proposed class claims that it has violated Washington state laws with its customer referral program, arguing the allegations fail to show that the company helped users send referral messages to nonconsenting third parties.

  • May 26, 2026

    USPTO Spurns Reexam Bid For Reusing Failed IPR Theories

    A pair of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office examiners discretionarily denied a request for reexamination of a Fractus SA patent, saying the effort rehashed arguments from an America Invents Act challenge of the same patent that was denied for so-called settled expectations.

  • May 26, 2026

    Verizon, AT&T Lose Bids To Dodge Database Patent Suits

    AT&T and Verizon lost their bids to escape lawsuits accusing them of infringing a pair of patents covering ways to clean data records after a Delaware federal court on Tuesday rejected their arguments that the patents didn't pass muster under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test.

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